I’m a little ignorant about the delegate counting process but I don’t see if somehow Biden dropped out (let’s say he had a stroke or something) why the delegates couldn’t do the respective 2nd place in their states.

You don't seem to understand how message boards and basic human memory work. I've argued with you a few times over the past few weeks bc you and I both post here and disagree. Furthermore I've remembered our arguments bc i found yours particularly dumb and felt it was notable that when presented with a solid argument, you disappeared. Finally, when I saw this particular line, I though "hmm wonder how he felt about kavanaugh" at which point it took me 10 seconds to find your posts in the Supreme Court thread. I'm sorry that your intellect rates these things as a massive task of obsession but it's really fairly simple.

I mean, sexual assault accusations are as bad as it gets. Period. His campaign should respond on the record and with facts.

“Skeletons” are far more subjective. For instance most Bernie fans probably thought Pete working for McKinsey was a skeleton but Bernie’s old writings weren’t. And that’s fine. But subjective and probably the compete opposite of the voting public at large who has no clue what McKinsey even is.

They didn't feel safer with him until others dropped out. They felt he was safer compared to Bernie, not all the other candidates. And of course people want two vote for a winner so the narrative behind him didn't hurt.

I don't know who you're responding to since my post was in response to moron and didn't mention path, but polls had been showing the same thing for weeks, if not months. No coincidence they all chose the same time to drop out.

I’m not excited about having to vote for Biden but I pretend to be in public because historically enthusiasm has been a factor and if everyone voting for Biden is all depressed about Biden, it’s not going to help drive turnout.

Biden has a podcast he’s been doing and his voice and speech are normal. You have to speed it up 25% but it’s pretty clear Biden is fine except he speaks slowly. He’s clearly not as smart as Bernie or Hillary or Obama, but he’s 1000x more coherent than trump would be on any of these topics.

I think what happens on tv is he tries to talk faster which makes him stumble over his words a lot more. He sounds like an old grandpa at his normal speaking rate but he basically is.

It's going to be a tough balancing act. I think there's definite value in bringing up the whole long, sordid chain of Trump shittiness going back to 2016, just to make people remember the staggering volume of it rather than the latest outrage. He and his team are very good at constantly generating new ones to make you forget the old. But on the other hand, you don't want to elicit exactly ^ this response of, "Why did you have to go all the way back to _______?" (Never mind the fact that impeachment being just a couple of months ago would make it very fresh in any sane universe)

So do we think that this dictatorial/totalitarian rant from yesterday's briefing will have an impact, especially if that behavior continues? I bet a lot of Trump's supporters are the same ones who feel that the Civil War was fought over states' rights.

To have a president state that the POTUS has total authority over states/governors would fly in the face of that belief.

It will only matter as far as potential value in rallying the Dem base, if anything.

I don't know how you could think that after all trump has done, a press conference comment would turn off a supporter. His base is his base. If you just assume his 44% is locked in and worry about the rest of the voter base, youll waste less mental energy.

I don't know. I mean I know Biden doesn't do anything for the left, but I bet a lot of on the fencers...if there are any left, would go for Biden as much as they would Trump. It's not like there is a huge difference between those two men.

This is both sides bullshit. You may not care for liberal policy positions. You may not like the Democratic Party. You may hate Biden. That's fine, but don't pretend conservative, Republican, and Trump are reverse sides of the same coins. They're not.

Go through your posts in the President Trump credibility watch thread and make a list of all the things you could see Biden also saying or doing.-]